Peterloo Massacre & Romanticism - ENGL 4360: Interlibrary Loan Possibilities

Ballads and songs of Peterloo is an edited collection of poems and songs written following the Peterloo Massacre in 1819. This collection, which includes over seventy poems, were published either as broadsides or in radical periodicals and newspapers.

Notes to support the reading of the texts are provided, but they also stand alone, conveying the original publications without diluting their authenticity.

Following an introduction outlining the massacre, the radical press and broadside ballad, the poems are grouped into six sections according to theme.

This book is primarily aimed at students and lecturers of Romanticism and social history.

An important interdisciplinary study of the place of women in shaping the discourse of radicalism in the course of the 19th century. From Peterloo through the campaigns to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts, Rogers mines out the inclusive rhetoric of the “people” and populism as shaped by radical women writers and activists. - from Oxford Bibliographies